Getting Infoview Folder Location in Crystal Reports

Question

Hi,
I was wondering if anyone knows if it is possible to create a formula or function in Crystal Reports 2008 that would allow a Crystal Report to dynamically retrieve the Infoview folder path that it is in within Infoview XIR2 SP4?
Let's say in Infoview that I have a folder hierarchy with a report in a subfolder (sorry for the poor drawing), such as:
Public Folders -> Folder A -> Folder B -> Folder C -> MyReport.rpt
|----
> Folder D -> Folder E
I'm trying to find a way to create a formula or function in Crystal Reports that would return something like:
   | Public Folders | Folder A | Folder B | Folder C
I'm using the pipe symbol as an example delimiter. Subsequently, if I were to move the report to Folder E in the above structure, the formula would return:
   | Public Folders | Folder D | Folder E
Is this possible? I know that Crystal has a built-in function to get the path and file name of the report, but it returns the physical path and name of the file in the FRS, not the logical folder path within Infoview.
Edited by: Perry Provost on Nov 25, 2010 8:00 PM

Answer 1

Hi Perry,
First, don't mix Report version and BOE versions. If you are on XI R2 then use CR XI R2 also. Or be careful, new functionality may cause problems in BOE.
There is no function in CR 2008 that could do that. You could however, if you are or have a developer available, write a UFL that could query BOE to get the info. They do need to be the same version though.
You may want to post your question in the BOE forum also, there may be a way to get the info using Query Builder.
Thank you
Don